Methods and systems for processing documents with task-specific highlighting

ABSTRACT

Methods and systems for automatically processing a document may include classifying a document, such as a medical document, as one or more document types based at least in part on one or more machine learning models and one or more tokens extracted from the medical document, determining a token contribution weight of each token towards the classification, modifying the medical document based on the token contribution weights of the one or more tokens, and displaying the modified medical document on a display to a user.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority to U.S. Patent Application Ser. No.63/025,054 filed May 14, 2020, which is incorporated herein in itsentirety by this reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

This invention relates generally to the field of processing documents,such as medical documents.

BACKGROUND

Medical records, in either physical or digital format, typically containa deluge of information collected linearly over time. A patient's“chart” may contain any number of healthcare-related information, suchas patient characteristics (e.g., age, sex, gender, weight, BMI, race,ethnicity, location, referrals, health insurance, etc.), medical events(e.g., diagnostics tests, imaging, treatments, prescriptions, etc.),and/or other relevant facts. Processing this massive amount ofinformation is a crucial part of any medical institution's workflow, yetis a major time- and resource-consuming step for clinicians.

Furthermore, conventional manual methods for processing documents mayresult in mistakes, such as due to human error. Errors in identifyingand classifying precise medical events from medical records can haveserious implications for patient care, as well as the clinician's and/ormedical institution's ability to accurately monitor key healthcaremetrics, such as the National Committee for Quality Assurance'sHealthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS).

Accordingly, there is a need for new and improved methods and systemsfor automatically processing documents.

SUMMARY

Generally, in some variations, a method for automatically processing amedical document (or other suitable document) includes, at one or moreprocessors, classifying a medical document as one or more document typesbased at least in part on one or more machine learning models and one ormore tokens extracted from the medical document, determining a tokencontribution weight of each token toward the classification, modifyingthe medical document based on the token contribution weights of the oneor more tokens, and displaying the modified medical document on adisplay to a user. In some variations, the method may further includeclassifying the medical document as including text relating to aparticular medical event, such as a clinical exam.

In some variations, classifying the medical document may includedetermining at least one bag of words vector from one or more extractedtokens, generating at least one topic vector from the at least one bagof words vector, wherein the at least one topic vector comprises one ormore topic features, each topic feature mapping to a probabilitydistribution of tokens for the topic feature, and classifying themedical document based on the at least one topic vector. In somevariations, generating at least one topic vector may include, forexample, fitting a Latent Dirichlet Allocation model to the at least onebag of words vector. In some variations, classifying the medicaldocument may include, for example, applying a gradient boostingclassifier model to the at least one topic vector.

In some variations, determining a token contribution weight of eachtoken may include determining an impact score associated with each topicfeature in the at least one topic vector, distributing the impact scoresto the one or more tokens according to the probability distributionsmapped to each topic feature in the at least one topic vector, anddetermining the token contribution weight for each token by summing thedistributed impact scores for the token. In some variations, the impactscore may be, for example, a Shapley Additive Explanation (SHAP) value.In some variations, distributing the impact scores to the one or moretokens may include distributing the SHAP value of each topic feature toall of the one or more tokens, and normalizing the distributed SHAPvalues.

In some variations, modifying the medical document based on the tokencontribution weights may include mapping the token contribution weightsto a color map, and modifying text of the medical document based on themapping. Modifying the medical document may include changing, forexample, at least one of text font appearance and text font highlightingbased on the mapping. In some variations, modifying the medical documentmay include scaling the color map based on a confidence level of theclassification of the medical document. In some variations, modifyingthe medical document comprises determining a sentence contributionweight of each sentence in the medical document based on the sum oftoken contribution weights of one or more tokens in the sentence, andmapping the sentence contribution weights to a color map.

In some variations, a method for automatically processing a medicaldocument, includes determining a Healthcare Effectiveness Data andInformation Set (HEDIS) quality metric based at least in part on theclassification of the medical document.

Furthermore, a system for automatically processing a medical document,may include one or more processors configured to classify a medicaldocument as one or more document types based at least in part on one ormore machine learning models and one or more tokens extracted from themedical document, determine a token contribution weight of each tokentoward the classification, modify the medical document based on thetoken contribution weights of the one or more tokens, and display themodified medical document on a display to a user.

In some variations, the one or more processors is configured to classifythe medical document at least in part by determining at least one bag ofwords vector from one or more extracted tokens, generating at least onetopic vector from the at least one bag of words vector, wherein the atleast one topic vector comprises one or more topic features, each topicfeature mapping to a probability distribution of tokens for the topicfeature, classifying the medical document based on the at least onetopic vector.

In some variations, the one or more processors is configured todetermine the token contribution weight of each token at least in partby determining an impact score associated with each topic feature in theat least one topic vector, distributing the impact scores to the one ormore tokens according to the probability distributions mapped to eachtopic feature in the at least one topic vector, and determining thetoken contribution weight for each token by summing the distributedimpact scores for the token.

In some variations, the one or more processors is configured to modifythe medical document at least in part by mapping the token contributionweights to a color map and modifying text of the medical document basedon the mapping. In some variations, the one or more processors isconfigured to modify the medical document at least in part by changingat least one of text font appearance and text font highlighting based onthe mapping. In some variations, the one or more processors isconfigured to modify the medical document at least in part bydetermining a sentence contribution weight of each sentence in themedical document based on the sum of token contribution weights of oneor more tokens in the sentence and mapping the sentence contributionweights to a color map.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

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FIG. 1 depicts an illustrative flowchart of an example of a method forautomatically processing a medical document.

FIG. 2 depicts an illustrative flowchart of an example of a method forclassifying a medical document.

FIG. 3 depicts an illustrative flowchart of an example of a method fordetermining a token contribution weight.

FIG. 4A depicts an example of a method for automatically processing adocument.

FIG. 4B depicts token weights in the example method shown in FIG. 4A.

FIGS. 5A and 5B depict an example of an unprocessed medical document anda processed medical document with task-specific highlighting,respectively.

FIG. 6 depicts an illustrative schematic of a system environment with amedical document assessment system.

FIG. 7 depicts an illustrative schematic of an exemplary medicaldocument assessment system.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Non-limiting examples of various aspects and variations of the inventionare described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Described below are methods and systems for automatically processing adocument, which may include classifying a document, such as a medicaldocument, as one or more document types based at least in part on one ormore machine learning models and one or more tokens extracted form themedical document, determining a token contribution weight of each tokentowards the classification, modifying the medical document based on thetoken contribution weights of the one or more tokens, and displaying themodified medical document on a display to a user.

The methods and systems described in the present disclosure improveefficiency by clinicians in classifying medical documents. For example,a medical document may be automatically classified as containing aclinical exam relevant to a HEDIS metric. This allows for accuraterecord keeping and reporting by clinicians to institutions such as theNational Committee for Quality Assurance. Further, by visuallyexplaining the medical document classification, the methods and systemsdescribed in the present disclosure increase compliance and provideassurance to the clinician. In some variation, the clinician's“proof-reading” of the medical document may increase reliability of thedocument classification by providing a human audit. This feedbackmechanism may allow any potential errors in the method and system to berapidly identified and improved upon. Yet another advantage is reducingadministrative burden and/or clinical burnout, by optimizing routinemanual document review processes via automatic visual highlighting ofthe most relevant texts within an extensive medical document.Consequently time, labor, and cost savings are realized, and ultimately,medical care is improved.

Methods for Processing Documents

As shown in FIG. 1, a method 100 for automatically processing a documentmay include classifying a medical document based on one or more machinelearning models and one ore more tokens extracted from the medicaldocument 110, determining a token contribution weight of each tokentoward the classification 120, modifying the medical document based onthe token contribution weights 130, and displaying the modified medicaldocument on a display to a user 140.

Document Classification

Classification of a document (e.g., a medical document may function tolabel the document as a document of one or more types. As shown in FIG.2, classifying a document may include extracting one or more tokens fromthe document (112), determining at least one Bag of Words (BoW) vectorfrom one or more extracted tokens (114), generating at least one topicvector from the BoW vector (116), and classifying document based on theat least one topic vector (118).

As an illustrative example of this process, FIG. 4A refers to a documentcontaining a text from which a tokenizing algorithm may extract tokenssuch as “dog”, “cat”, “pet” and “desk” (412). The tokenizing algorithmmay, for example split the text string into a list of tokens by removingpunctuation, stemming, stop words, etc. From the one or more extractedtokens, at least one Bag of Words (BoW) vector may be determined (414).As illustrated in FIG. 4A, a BoW model may be used to compute BoWvectors based on the tokens identified above. The BoW vector may keepcount of the total occurrence of the tokens as they appeared in thetext. Thus, the BoW vector “cats” may be assigned a value of 2, “dogs”,“pets” and “desk” may be assigned a value of 1, and “office and “pencil”may be assigned a value of 0. From the BoW vectors, at least one topicvector may be generated (416). In some variations, the at least onetopic vector may be generated, for example, by fitting a LatentDirichlet Allocation model that reduces the dimensionality of BoW vectorto topic vectors. Each topic feature or slot corresponds to a topic,such as Topic A for pets, and Topic B for office supplies. The numberdisplayed in each topic feature or slot, i.e. 0.92 for Topic A (pets)and 0.08 for Topic B (office supplies), maps to a probabilitydistribution of tokens for that topic. The document may be then beclassified based on the at least one topic vector (418). In somevariations, the medical document may be classified by applying, forexample, a gradient boosting classifier model to the at least one topicvector. In some variations, the classifier model may also output aconfidence level toward the predicted label. In the example illustratedin FIG. 4A, gradient boosting classifier model was used to predict alabel of 1 (positive) or 0 (negative) for text based on topic vector.Thus, the text was classified with a label of 1 as being about Topic A(i.e., pets).

Explainability Technique

Task-specific highlighting of text may rely on an explainabilitytechnique that explains the classification of a document as describedabove. To explain classification of documents, for example medicaldocuments, token contribution weight of each token toward theclassification may be determined. As shown in FIG. 3, determining atoken contribution weight of each token toward the classification mayinclude determining an impact score associated with each topic featuresin the topic vector (122), distributing the impact scores to the one ormore tokens (124), and summing the distributed impact scores for eachtoken (126). The impact score may, for example, be a Shapley AdditiveExplanation (SHAP) value for each previously-identified topic feature.SHAP values account for both magnitude and direction, for instance apositive SHAP value for a topic feature means that the topic featurepushed the classifier towards the predicted label, while a negativevalue means the topic feature pushed the classifier away from aparticular predicted label. Accordingly, in some variations,distributing the impact scores to the one or more tokens (124) mayinclude distributing the SHAP values of each topic features to all ofthe tokens.

The method may further include mapping the impact scores for the tokensto a visual map (128), such as a color map. The visual map may, forexample, visually highlight or otherwise provide a visual indication ofwhich tokens (e.g., words) contributed strongly to the documentclassification. In one example, the visual map may be a color map (e.g.,temperature map) where tokens found to contribute strongly to thedocument classification (based on determined token contribution weight)may be associated with a first color (e.g., red), while tokens found tonot contribute strongly to the document classification may be associatedwith a second color (e.g., blue). The color map may correspond to aspectrum (e.g., ranging from dark blue to dark red, with intermediateintensities and/or colors to be associated with moderate contributionsto the document classification). In some variations, the per-tokencontribution weights may be normalized (127) such as prior to mapping(128), such that the maximum value is the output of the model. Forexample, the contributions may be scaled to between −1 and 1, where 1 isa very confident positive prediction, while −1 is a very confidentnegative prediction. The visual map may be scaled accordingly to suchnormalized contribution weights. For example, a contribution weight of 1may be mapped to one extreme of the color map (e.g., dark red).

In some variations, the visual map may be scaled based on the confidencelevel of the classification of the medical document. For example, if thedocument was classified as a particular type with only 50% confidence,then a map scale otherwise ranging from −1 to 1 may be scaled by half(i.e., −0.5 to −0.5).

Additionally or alternatively, visual mapping may be include one or morediscrete thresholds or “buckets”. For example, in some variations, onlytokens having a token contribution weight exceeding a predeterminedthreshold (e.g., 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, etc.) may be mapped to a particularcolor. As another example, in some variations, only tokens having atoken contribution weight falling within a first range of values (e.g.,between 0.7 and 0.9) may be mapped to a first color, while tokens havinga token contribution weight falling within a second range of values(e.g., between 0.5 and 0.7) may be mapped to a second color, and soforth.

In some variations, the distributed token contribution weights may besummed prior to mapping, such as on a sentence-level (or partialsentence, such as phrases between punctuation, etc.). The summed tokencontribution weights may also be mapped and/or thresholded to a visualmap as described above. One advantage of mapping such summed impactscores among phrases or sentences is to produce smoother highlightingthat may be more intuitive for a human reader. For example, summingtoken weights at the sentence level may enable highlighting of an entireimportant sentence, rather than discretely and/or intermittentlyhighlighting individual words. Furthermore, in some variations theper-sentence contributions may be normalized such that the maximum valueis the output score of the model. For example, the contributions may bescaled to between 0 and 1, where 1 is a very confident positiveprediction, while 0 is a very confident negative prediction.

FIG. 4A provides an illustrative example of the above-describedexplainability technique for an example document. As shown in FIG. 4A,an impact score associated with each topic feature in the at least onetopic vector may be determined (422). In some variations, the impactscore may be a Shapley Additive Explanation (SHAP) value for thepreviously-identified topic features. As described above, SHAP valuesaccount for both magnitude and direction, for instance a positive SHAPvalue for a topic feature means that the topic feature pushed theclassifier towards the predicted label, while a negative value means thetopic feature pushed the classifier away from a particular predictedlabel. Thus, the numerical values shown for Topic A (0.3) and Topic B(0.1) represent the magnitude of impact in the classifier's labelconclusion. The impact scores may be distributed to the one or moretokens, and the token contribution weight for each token may bedetermined by summing the distributed impact scores for the token (424).As described above, in some variations the distributed impact scores maybe summed at the per-sentence (or per-phrase) level and/or normalized.In some variations, the distribution of impact scores may be accordingto the probability distributions mapped to each topic feature in the atleast one topic vector. As shown in FIG. 4A, the SHAP values for Topic Aand Topic B were distributed, or “paid out”, to tokens according tocorresponding probability distribution for each topic feature. FIG. 4Bshows token weights per topic. For example, the token “dog”, which has ahigh probability with respect to Topic A (pets), was assigned a value of0.3. However, the same token had negligible weight contribution to TopicB (office supplies) given the low probability.

Document Modification and Display

As shown in FIG. 1, methods for automatically processing documents(e.g., medical documents) may include modifying the medical documentbased on the mapping of token contribution weights (e.g., as describedwith respect to FIG. 3). In some variations, this may include modifyingthe text of the medical document based on the mapping. For example, thetext font appearance and/or text font highlighting of the document maybe modified based on a color mapping as described below. For example, asshown in FIG. 4A, tokens with the heaviest contribution weights (“dogs”,“cats”) are highlighted in dark green indicating higher contribution tothe document classification as relating to pets, tokens with moderatecontribution weights (“pets”) are highlighted in a lighter shade ofgreen representing its lower token contribution toward theclassification. Furthermore, tokens with negative or low contributionweights (“desks”) may be highlighted in an even lighter shade of greenthan those with moderate contribution weights. Similarly, entiresentences or phrases may be highlighted based on summed token weights,summed as described above. Accordingly, a modified document may beachieved by visually emphasizing portions of the text based on thedetermined contribution of each token(s). As shown in FIG. 1, methodsfor automatically processing documents may further include displayingthe modified medical document to a user (140), such as on a display.

Although the visual mapping and modifications are primarily describedherein as colored highlighting of text, it should be understood thatemphasis of text may be accomplished through other forms of highlighting(e.g., by varying font size, font weight (e.g., degree of letterthickness), font type, font color, underlining, underline weights,etc.). In other words, the highlighting of tokens, sentences, or partialsentences may be performed in various suitable manners in order toemphasize their contribution to the classification of the document.

The methods described in the present disclosure are applicable for theclassification, and explanation thereof, of any document into any one ormore types. For example, the document may be a medical document, whichmay be classified, and the classification explained, as containing oneor more healthcare metrics. In some variations, the method may be usedto determine a HEDIS quality metric based on the classification, andexplanation thereof, of the medical document.

EXAMPLE

FIGS. 5A and 5B relate to an example of medical document classificationand explanation/highlighting suitable for use in determining a HEDISquality metric, specifically colonoscopy screening, in the medicaldocument.

A medical document containing a patient's medical history was obtained.FIG. 5A. illustrates a portion of the medical document containing thepatient's medical history. The medical document was automaticallyprocessed by the classification and explanation method described aboveto determine whether the medical document contained a colonoscopy test.The processed medical document is shown in FIG. 5B. The document wasclassified as indeed containing a colonoscopy test. Colonoscopy isclassified by HEDIS as a clinical exam for screening colorectal cancer,and thus the medical document was also classified as containing a HEDISquality metric. Further, as seen in the FIG. 5B, parts of the processedmedical document were highlighted for explaining the most relevantsentences used in the classification of the document as containingcolonoscopy results. The sentences shown in red were highly relevant indetermining the presence of a colonoscopy test, while those in gray weresomewhat unrelated or unimportant for determining the presence of acolonoscopy test.

By way of the above example, the presence of a colonoscopy test in apatient's medical record was automatically determined. The document wasclassified and highlighted as containing a colonoscopy test, and/or ascontaining a HEDIS metric for colorectal cancer screening. It is to beunderstood that the method of classification, and explanation thereof,of the present disclosure are applicable to any task, such as medicaltasks (clinical exams, diagnostics, imaging, etc.). In some variations,the medical task could be a mammogram, which may be used to classify amedical document as positively containing a HEDIS metric for breastcancer screening. In some variations, the identified medical task, uponwhich one or more classification are based, may not have an associatedHEDIS metric.

Systems for Processing Documents

Generally, as shown in in FIG. 6, a clinician 610 (e.g., physician,nurse practitioner, any healthcare worker, etc.) may access a usercomputing device 620 for engaging with a medical document associatedwith a patient P. The user computing device 620 may be configured tocommunicate in a wireless or wired manner with a network 630 (e.g.,cloud-based network or other suitable network of devices), such thatdata received from the user computing device 620 may be analyzedremotely (non-locally). Alternatively, data from the user computingdevice 620 may be analyzed locally. Also connected to the network 630may be a document storage system 640 (e.g., server) and/or a documentprocessing system 650, which may be accessible to the user computingdevice 620 over the network 630. While one particular configuration isdepicted in FIG. 6 by way of example, it should be understood that otherconfigurations for the document processing system in relation to otheruser interface devices are also possible.

The user computing device 620 may, for example, be a tablet, mobilephone, laptop computer, desktop computer, or the like. The usercomputing device may include a controller including a processor (e.g.,CPU) and memory (which can include one or more computer-readable storagemediums). The processor may incorporate data received from memory anduser input. The memory may include stored instructions to cause theprocessor to execute modules, processes, and/or functions associatedwith the methods described herein. In some variations, the memory andprocessor may be implemented on a single chip, while in other variationsthey can be implanted on separate chips.

In some variations, the user computing device may further include acommunication interface configured to permit a clinician or other userto control the computing device. The communication interface may includea user interface configured to permit a user (e.g., patient, health careprofessional, etc.) to control the computing device. The communicationinterface may permit a user to interact with and/or control a computingdevice directly and/or remotely. For example, a user interface of thecomputing device may include an input device for a user to inputcommands and an output device for a user to receive output (e.g.,prompts on a display device).

The communication interface may further include a network interfaceconfigured to connect the computing device to another system (e.g.,internet, remote server, database) by wired or wireless connection. Insome variations, the computing device may be in communication with otherdevices via one or more wired or wireless networks. In some variations,the communication interface may include a radiofrequency receiver,transmitter, and/or optical (e.g., infrared) receiver and transmitterconfigured to communicate with one or more devices and/or networks.

For example, the communication interface may enable the user computingdevice to communicate with the document storage system 640 and/ordocument processing system 650 over a network 630, as shown in FIG. 6.The document storage system 640 may include, for example, aHIPAA-compliant server configured to store and enable access to themedical documents.

As shown in FIG. 7, the medical document assessment system 700 mayinclude one or more processors 720 which may be configured to executeinstructions stored on one or more memory devices 730. The medicaldocument assessment system 700 may further include one or more networkcommunication interfaces 710 to transmit and/or receive data such asmedical documents to and from user computing devices, etc.

The medical document assessment system 700 may include one or moreprocessors configured to perform one or more aspects of the methodsdescribed above. For example, the system 700 may include one or moreprocessors configured to receive a medical document and classify themedical document as one or more document types. The one or moreprocessors may be further configured to modify the medical document anddisplay the modified medical document to a clinician. For example, theone or more processors may be configured to perform any one or more ofthe processes described above with respect to FIG. 1, such as todetermine a token contribution weight of each token toward theclassification, modify the medical document based on the tokencontribution weights, and display the modified medical document on adisplay to a user.

For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the one or more memory devices 730 mayinclude software encoding an a classification module 732 configured toreceive one or more medical documents and classify the medical documentsbased on one or more machine learning models and one or more tokensextracted from the medical document. In some variations, one or moreprocessors executing software encoding the classification module 732may, for example, be configured to perform any one or more of theprocesses described above with respect to FIGS. 1 and 2. For example,the one or more processors may be configured to extract one or moretokens from a medical document, determine at least one BoW vector fromone or more extracted tokens, generate at least one topic vector fromthe BoW vector, and/or classify the medical document based on the atleast one topic vector.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 7, the one or more memory devices 730 mayinclude software encoding an explanation module 734 configured to modifyand display the modified medical document. In some variations, one ormore processors executing software encoding the explanation module 734may, for example, may be configured to perform any one or more of theexplanation processes described above with respect to FIG. 1 and FIG. 3.In some variations, one or more processors may be configured todetermine an impact score associated with each topic feature in at leastone topic vector, distribute the impact scores to the one or moretokens, sum the distributed impact scores for each token, normalize thedistributed impact scores, and/or map the impact scores for the tokensto a visual map. In some variations, the one or more processors may mapthe token contribution weights to a color map, for example.

One or more processors may be further configured to modify text of themedical document based on the mapping. For example, the medical documentmay be modified at least in part by changing at least one of text fontappearance and text font highlighting based on the mapping. Further, insome variations, the medical document may be modified at least in partby determining a sentence contribution weight of each sentence in themedical document based on the sum of token contribution weights of oneor more tokens in the sentence and mapping the sentence contributionweights to a color map or other visual map. The modified medicaldocument may be displayed to a user on a display.

The classified and modified medical documents may be communicated to auser computing device 620 through one or more network communicationinterfaces. The user computing device 620 may then be configured toprovide a classification of the medical document into one or more typesalong with explanation of the classification, for example byhighlighting relevant words and/or sentences in the modified medicaldocument. Examples of medical documents with classification andhighlighting are shown and described above with respect to FIG. 5A and5B.

The systems described in the present disclosure are applicable for theclassification of any documents into any one or more types. For example,the document may be a medical document which may be classified ascontaining one or more metrics. In some variations, the classificationmay be used to determine a HEDIS quality metric based on theclassification of the medical document.

The foregoing description, for purposes of explanation, used specificnomenclature to provide a thorough understanding of the invention.However, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that specificdetails are not required in order to practice the invention. Thus, theforegoing descriptions of specific embodiments of the invention arepresented for purposes of illustration and description. They are notintended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise formsdisclosed; obviously, many modifications and variations are possible inview of the above teachings. The embodiments were chosen and describedin order to explain the principles of the invention and its practicalapplications, they thereby enable others skilled in the art to utilizethe invention and various embodiments with various modifications as aresuited to the particular use contemplated. It is intended that thefollowing claims and their equivalents define the scope of theinvention.

1. A method for automatically processing a medical document, the methodcomprising: at one or more processors: classifying a medical document asone or more document types based at least in part on one or more machinelearning models and one or more tokens extracted from the medicaldocument; determining a token contribution weight of each token towardthe classification; modifying the medical document based on the tokencontribution weights of the one or more tokens; and displaying themodified medical document on a display to a user.
 2. The method of claim1, wherein classifying the medical document comprises classifying themedical document as including text relating to a particular medicalevent.
 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the medical event is a clinicalexam.
 4. The method of claim 1, wherein classifying the medical documentcomprises: determining at least one bag of words vector from one or moreextracted tokens; generating at least one topic vector from the at leastone bag of words vector, wherein the at least one topic vector comprisesone or more topic features, each topic feature mapping to a probabilitydistribution of tokens for the topic feature; and classifying themedical document based on the at least one topic vector.
 5. The methodof claim 4, wherein generating at least one topic vector comprisesfitting a Latent Dirichlet Allocation model to the at least one bag ofwords vector.
 6. The method of claim 4, wherein classifying the medicaldocument comprises applying a gradient boosting classifier model to theat least one topic vector.
 7. The method of claim 4, wherein determininga token contribution weight of each token comprises: determining animpact score associated with each topic feature in the at least onetopic vector; distributing the impact scores to the one or more tokensaccording to the probability distributions mapped to each topic featurein the at least one topic vector; and determining the token contributionweight for each token by summing the distributed impact scores for thetoken.
 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the impact score is a ShapleyAdditive Explanation (SHAP) value.
 9. The method of claim 8, whereindistributing the impact scores to the one or more tokens comprisesdistributing the SHAP value of each topic feature to all of the one ormore tokens, and normalizing the distributed SHAP values.
 10. The methodof claim 1, wherein modifying the medical document based on the tokencontribution weights comprises mapping the token contribution weights toa color map, and modifying text of the medical document based on themapping.
 11. The method of claim 10, wherein modifying the medicaldocument comprises changing at least one of text font appearance andtext font highlighting based on the mapping.
 12. The method of claim 10,wherein modifying the medical document comprises scaling the color mapbased on a confidence level of the classification of the medicaldocument.
 13. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the medicaldocument comprises determining a sentence contribution weight of eachsentence in the medical document based on the sum of token contributionweights of one or more tokens in the sentence, and mapping the sentencecontribution weights to a color map.
 14. The method of claim 1, furthercomprising determining a HEDIS quality metric based at least in part onthe classification of the medical document.
 15. A system forautomatically processing a medical document, the system comprising: oneor more processors configured to: classify a medical document as one ormore document types based at least in part on one or more machinelearning models and one or more tokens extracted from the medicaldocument; determine a token contribution weight of each token toward theclassification; modify the medical document based on the tokencontribution weights of the one or more tokens; and display the modifiedmedical document on a display to a user.
 16. The system of claim 15,wherein the one or more processors is configured to classify the medicaldocument at least in part by: determining at least one bag of wordsvector from one or more extracted tokens; generating at least one topicvector from the at least one bag of words vector, wherein the at leastone topic vector comprises one or more topic features, each topicfeature mapping to a probability distribution of tokens for the topicfeature; and classifying the medical document based on the at least onetopic vector.
 17. The system of claim 16, wherein the one or moreprocessors is configured to determine the token contribution weight ofeach token at least in part by: determining an impact score associatedwith each topic feature in the at least one topic vector; distributingthe impact scores to the one or more tokens according to the probabilitydistributions mapped to each topic feature in the at least one topicvector; and determining the token contribution weight for each token bysumming the distributed impact scores for the token.
 18. The system ofclaim 15, wherein the one or more processors is configured to modify themedical document at least in part by mapping the token contributionweights to a color map, and modifying text of the medical document basedon the mapping.
 19. The system of claim 15, wherein the one or moreprocessors is configured to modify the medical document at least in partby changing at least one of text font appearance and text fonthighlighting based on the mapping.
 20. The system of claim 15, whereinthe one or more processors is configured to modify the medical documentat least in part by determining a sentence contribution weight of eachsentence in the medical document based on the sum of token contributionweights of one or more tokens in the sentence, and mapping the sentencecontribution weights to a color map.